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Show Dadchp El F&ir I ale Mr -MAPY-GRAHAM -BONNER WHERE IT'S SPRINGTIME Harry started to wander. He had been visiting the planet Mars. He thonL'ht he'd real- -I ; s-- Sty ly discover whether wheth-er Mars had people peo-ple living upon his Planet Just coming com-ing to the front door, as it were, of Mars' h o m e, was not quite enough. II o w e v e r, It wasn't fair to spy on Mars If he wanted to keep his secret and yet At that moment Cosmo arrived. Harry imagined they must have Harry Started haa a or S'S" to Wander naIln8 t1"1' made Cosmo come so promptly each time, and when he asked Cosmo about It Cosmo admitted almost that this was so. "Did you have a nice talk with Mars?" Cosmo asked as they were in the plane again and speeding away. "Yes, and he sent a message to the Earth." "Oh, won't the Earth be delighted?" "I'm not quite sure," Harry answered. an-swered. Jupiter had a great big voice, a great big body, a great big way of welcoming Harry. It was upon his Planet that they had now landed. The weather was simply beautiful here. Harry thought he would have to tell his mother about It. She loved nice mild weather. His father would want to hear about his trip, too, for his father had always been Interested in the stars. From the time he was only a little boy, and Nancy a baby, he had remembered how often his father fa-ther had said that if only he had the time he would like nothing better than to study the stars. Harry wondered about Nancy. It was too bad she couldn't be with him. Surely she couldn't be enjoying the trip she was having as much as she would have enjoyed this. She would have loved to have come with him. He felt, for a moment, the way he had when he was a little boy, and the circus cir-cus parade had come down the street. He could never look at it until every member of the family had come out to watch, too. How much he would have to tell them all. Their trip would be quite unimportant compared to his. "I'm glad to meet you," Harry told Jupiter, and afterward he thought with amusement that this had been a rather condescending way of speaking to so mighty a planet, with so mighty a name, but Jupiter had seemed entirely en-tirely pleased. He had greeted Harry In such a hearty, generous manner. "Tou don't mind if I appear to thunder at you as I speak?" Jupiter said. "It doesn't mean anything. They used to say I had control of the changes of the weather in the old days, and I began booming when I talked to try to live up to this reputation." repu-tation." Harry assured Jupiter that he didn't mind how he talked so long as he did talk. . "All Is well, then," said Jupiter. Jupi-ter. "In poems by a gentleman named Homer no doubt you've heard of him, for he gained a splendid name on your Earth I was often called The Thunderer. "Oh, what stories sto-ries they used to make up about me. Do you like myths?" "X e s. I'v e a 1-ways 1-ways liked them pretty well. Why?" "I'd like to tell - JJ fTM. r 4 'J v' i yuu a icw. xue "All IS Well, Greeks thought Then," Said Ju-there Ju-there were twelve piter. gods and goddesses god-desses who lived in Olympus. There is a mountain by that name on your Earth. Those who lived far away from It thought that it reached the sky and that the gods were up on top of the mountain right along the sky. Those who were near the mountain know it didn't reach the sky but thought the gods and goddesses lived right in the sky. "Chief of all, father of the gods, was the one they called the sky-god Zeus. That was none other than myself, my-self, and that was my Greek name. Jupiter Is my Latin name and the name I use." |
